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From: tssnextrick Richard Jacoby
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 08:44

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In article <1992Sep28.034951.22087@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>  
audley@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Christopher D Audley) writes:
> In article <1992Sep27.150705.2142@lkba.uucp> uunet!lkba!lkb writes:
> >
> >I'm not a lawyer, but I can't imagine that anyone could get away with  
> >selling their own implementation of Windows, running on the native hardware,  
> >without being subject to the "Look and Feel" litigation of todays computer  
> >software business.
> 
> That would be rich.  Microsoft trying to defend themselves from a "Look and
> Feel" suit by Apple over Windows, while suing someone else for the same
> thing.
> 
> Chris

If I'm not mistaken that is what happened to Apple.  I remember something about  
Apple suing micro-soft for look and feel, while defending themselves from  
Xerox...


Rick

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